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authorAlexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com>2022-09-08 00:15:19 -0300
committerMarc Poulhiès <poulhies@adacore.com>2022-10-06 11:22:49 +0200
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ada: hardened booleans: exemplify codegen changes
Show the sort of code that is to be expected from using hardened booleans in Ada code. Mention that C traps instead of raising exceptions. gcc/ada/ * doc/gnat_rm/security_hardening_features.rst: Add examples of codegen changes in hardened booleans. Mention that C traps where Ada raises exceptions. * gnat_rm.texi: Regenerate.
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@@ -265,19 +265,40 @@ further remove checks found to be redundant.
For additional hardening, the ``hardbool`` :samp:`Machine_Attribute`
pragma can be used to annotate boolean types with representation
clauses, so that expressions of such types used as conditions are
-checked even when compiling with :switch:`-gnatVT`.
+checked even when compiling with :switch:`-gnatVT`:
.. code-block:: ada
pragma Machine_Attribute (HBool, "hardbool");
+ function To_Boolean (X : HBool) returns Boolean is (Boolean (X));
+
+
+is compiled roughly like:
+
+.. code-block:: ada
+
+ function To_Boolean (X : HBool) returns Boolean is
+ begin
+ if X not in True | False then
+ raise Constraint_Error;
+ elsif X in True then
+ return True;
+ else
+ return False;
+ end if;
+ end To_Boolean;
+
Note that :switch:`-gnatVn` will disable even ``hardbool`` testing.
Analogous behavior is available as a GCC extension to the C and
-Objective C programming languages, through the ``hardbool`` attribute.
-For usage and more details on that attribute, see :title:`Using the
-GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)`.
+Objective C programming languages, through the ``hardbool`` attribute,
+with the difference that, instead of raising a Constraint_Error
+exception, when a hardened boolean variable is found to hold a value
+that stands for neither True nor False, the program traps. For usage
+and more details on that attribute, see :title:`Using the GNU Compiler
+Collection (GCC)`.
.. Control Flow Redundancy: